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Wyvern Academy

Mixed · ages 2–19 · with sixth formDorset, South West · Weymouth DT3 5ALTrust: Southern Education TrustSchool website
Pupils on roll
95of 90 places
Free school meals
47.5%
Year 11 cohort 2025
6
Ofsted
Standards maintained, 20 November 2024Read the Ofsted report

Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Wyvern School (URN 113958, until 1 September 2012).

What the data says

Of the 7 pupils who finished Year 11 at Wyvern Academy in 2023, 0% stayed on in Wyvern Academy’s own sixth form (Dorset average 43%), none went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% across England.

Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Dorset and England.

Wyvern Academy
Dorset
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureWyvern AcademyDorsetEngland
Pupils in the cohort73,781607,348
Any sustained destination100%94%92%
Stayed in education100%85%86%
— school sixth form0%43%34%
— sixth form college0%13%
— further education college0%39%37%
— other education100%3%2%
Apprenticeship0%5%3%
Employment0%4%3%
No sustained destination0%5%6%
Destination unknown0%2%3%

Where students went after sixth form

Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.

No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.

GCSE results 2025

No published Key Stage 4 results for this school.

Other secondary schools in Dorset

Beaminster School

Voluntary controlled school · sixth form · 673 pupils

81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.0

Ferndown Upper School

Community school · sixth form · 1,134 pupils

88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.7

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.